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Bale and Bagged Silage

Silage that is baled or bagged offers a flexible storage system, especially for producers who lack space to build bunker/silo or drive-over piles. If ...

The role of fiber in silage and animal nutrition

Increasing intakes of high-quality silage are crucial to driving on-farm profitability, but to achieve this, producers must understand the role of fib...

Making Silage From Canola

Brassicas such as canola and kale are grown in many regions, mainly as a cash crop. But over recent years they have been used an alternative forage to...

Silage under temperature increase

Temperature increase is the main globally recognized parameter within climate change. All micro-organisms have an optimal temperature at which they gr...

Silage under drought

Lower rainfall (than historically predicted) is an observed effect of the changing climate in many countries (and a change to the seasonality of rainf...

When planets are not aligned for your corn silage harvest

As ensiled forage can make up 50 percent of the DMI in dairy cow diets, the attention to their quality has a tremendous impact on the profitability of...

Clean Up Your Act: Feed Hygienic Silage to Avoid Health, Productivity Drops

At its best, the process of ensiling should retain as many valuable nutrients and dry matter (DM) from the original forage crop as possible. Once the ...

Clean Up Your Act: Producing silage cattle need and want to eat.

Throwing away spoiled silage is no fun, it adds to feed costs and is labour intensive. Even worse, feeding poor quality silage has reduced nutritional...

The role of fiber in silage and animal nutrition

Increasing intakes of high-quality silage are crucial to driving on-farm profitability, but to achieve this, producers must understand the role of fib...